Floyd protests
His killing sparked a global uprising, but has anything changed after George Floyd’s death?
Floyd’s killing in May 2020 and the shocking video that captured it sparked one of the biggest civil rights uprisings in generations but for many the fight for change continues.
- by Farrah Tomazin
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Memphis police death sparks conversation on racism in the US
The race of the five officers charged in the Tyre Nichols killing has prompted a complex grappling among black activists about institutional racism in policing.
- by Robert Klemko, Silvia Foster-Frau and Emily Davies
‘Roma lives matter’: Czech protests compare death of man in police custody to George Floyd
Video footage shows one police officer kneeling on the man’s neck for several minutes.
Teen who filmed Floyd’s arrest, death wins Pulitzer honour
Darnella Frazier ushered her niece into a store then went back out to the footpath to begin recording because “it wasn’t right. He was suffering. He was in pain”.
- by Amy Forliti
A year after death George Floyd’s death, his family meets Joe Biden at White House
Underlying the emotional day, however, was the inability of Congress to meet the president’s deadline to advance police reform legislation by the anniversary of Floyd’s death.
- by Hunter Woodall
‘America will go up in flames’: Minneapolis on edge as jury deliberates
There’s broad agreement that anything other than a murder conviction for Derek Chauvin will result in an enormous eruption of rage across the States.
- by Matthew Knott
Boris Johnson’s most senior black adviser quits in row over race report
An official report ordered in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests concluded that Britain did not have a systemic race problem. This did not go down well.
- by Jill Lawless
‘Irreplaceable loss’: George Floyd’s family receive $34 million settlement
“It’s going to be a long journey to justice. This is just one step on the journey to justice,” said the family’s lawyer Ben Crump.
- by Steve Karnowski and Amy Forliti
‘I can’t breathe’: George Floyd murder trial set to begin
The death of Floyd, 46, triggered protests and rioting across the US after mobile phone footage emerged showing Chauvin, a white police officer, kneeling on his neck.
- by David Millward
McCormack doubles down on claim over US protests
The acting PM has labelled the Black Lives Matter movement a “protest over racial riots” in a new statement claiming a parallel with the storming of the US Congress.
- by David Crowe
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